As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to ...

The most common characteristic of German fighters during WWII wasn't a pinup on the side; it was a spiral painted on the nose cone. You can find images from the conflict showing all kinds of ...

World War II aircraft were painted in a wide assortment ... while Neutral Gray mixed black and white.) The colors for German Luftwaffe planes were established established by the Ministry ...

In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of World War II. The mission ... perceived as pro-German, Himmler ...

In December 1939, the president of the ICRC approached the German Red Cross to arrange for the ICRC delegates to visit the Jews from Vienna who had been deported to Poland. He met with a refusal, as ...

“She was the wrong person playing something like this mother of the country but putting the dagger ... of German guilt is just this, but cultural — the German guilt about World War II and ...

The Red Cross, accused of not doing enough to help ... and for access to them,” it said in a statement. In World War II, the ICRC visited prisoners of war, but its mandate did not explicitly ...

Yemen's Houthi rebels unilaterally freed 153 war detainees Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, one of several overtures in recent days to ease tensions after the ceasefire ...

Guernsey is marking the 80th anniversary of the International Red Cross SS Vega first visiting ... visit the islands through the occupation by German forces and after liberation in May 1945.

The information distributed in spam mailings about the alleged termination of cooperation between the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) and a similar German organization does not correspond to ...

Her latest book is BOOK AND DAGGER: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II 2024 has seen many ... munitions factories, Red Cross pharmacies, and telegraph offices?